Joe finally did the thing we knew he’d do all along…
Outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday in a stark reversal of his previous stance that he would not get his son off the hook.
Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced this month on federal gun charges and federal tax evasion charges.
“I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” Biden said in his statement.
The president issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for any offenses Hunter Biden has “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024,” according to the White House statement.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” Biden said in his statement. “There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
Byron York, the chief political correspondent at the Washington Examiner, shared a copy of the pardon on X, saying “That’s a big pardon.”
That's a big pardon. pic.twitter.com/Rn48rNcxC0
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 2, 2024
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